The Interdisciplinary Collaboration

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In the cosmopolitan fight against chronic diseases like cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and hypertension, the interdisciplinary collaboration seems to hold a new hope for prevention and management. Essentially founded on the confluence or a meeting point of many disciplines, this approach of collaboration will seek to orchestrate the collaboration of biomedical scientists, health care providers, public health professionals, policy makers, and community stakeholders. The collective effort is underlined by the main principles of promoting healthy behavior patterns, nutrition and risk factors, and expanding access to preventive health services and health care. Chronic disease prevention and control is rather multifaceted; therefore, its biological, …show more content…

But the process of such translation, by which scientific knowledge is transformed into practical gains for the benefit of the community, draws on a much larger number of experts and disciplines and needs a wide-ranging set of views. This essay discusses the challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary collaboration for community health from a biomedical science perspective. It touches on communication, ethical decision-making, collaboration, professionalism, and how they have an overall effect on building the effectiveness of collaborative efforts in an interdisciplinary component, plus discussing how collaboration would affect the community's health outcomes. In putting it together, we have been driven by the hope that it would help to emphasize the need for an interdisciplinary approach in tackling the complex public health challenges presented by chronic diseases, and that biomedical scientists would appreciate their integral role in such a collective …show more content…

Such self-reflection requires me not only to look at my technical skills and knowledge areas but also how well I would collaborate with other professionals from other diverse disciplines and now how to conduct research and translate its findings to enable applicable solutions that answer to Community Health. The focus of this professional reflection, among other things, extends to knowing the bounds of certain disciplinary approaches and seeking their connections in the course of solving problems that affect the public health. Being a biomedical scientist, I bring along knowledge of molecular and cellular mechanisms of chronic diseases as well as diagnostic tools and therapeutic interventions. Yet I also realize that the handling of such diseases calls for an interdisciplinary approach by healthcare providers, experts in public health, policy makers, and community stakeholders. Professional reflection also involves being

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